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Patents are an incentive given to inventors to reveal their inventions and not keep them as trade secrets ( reason for patents from the perspective of the state
by aniket_ray 16y ago
Patents are an incentive given to inventors to reveal their inventions and not keep them as trade secrets ( reason for patents from the perspective of the state).
Using this as a guiding principle, a patent should be granted only to those products that use an idea which has not been successfully replicated after some period of time.
Say if a product/service uses an idea and has been in the market for 2-3 years. If the idea adds to the greater good of the society and has not been replicated by anyone else yet; such ideas should qualify for the incentive of patents.
- nickpinkston 16y agoMake no mistake: patents are monopoly rights given to justify R&D. The "revealing" doctrine is largely obsolete. Modern patents say virtually nothing of how a invention works that can't be found by easily in a product description - or at most cursory reverse engineering. The true secret-sause is kept behind closed doors. However, more and more it appears the societal value of patents isn't realized, and in fact the majority actually decrease competition and research in a field.